Posted by
Steve Smith on
Mar 15, 2013; 6:49pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/Please-sign-this-thing-Eliminate-the-bi-annual-time-change-caused-by-Daylight-Savings-Time-tp7581998p7582040.html
> I heard somewhere that it is a plot by the fast food industry. Apparently
> fast food sales go up dramatically after daylight saving time comes on.
> (!?)
>
> N
I'm amazed when restaurants don't extend their closing by an hour when
DST comes around... as if people's hunger clocks can be adjusted as
easily as their wall clocks can. Often restaurants which closed "much
too early" already are are closed before dark or even sundown!
Not very civilized. And about as enlightened as Google letting Doug
buy an Android and then wondering why the blogosphere just lit up like a
fission reaction... Didn't Sergey and Larry even TALK to Admiral Nanos
before doing such a rash thing?
If your preferred eating place is closed when you are ready to eat, the
McD drive in is too easy perhaps? Also, while the original concept was
to *reduce* energy consumption, I think the contemporary experience is
that shifting people's work schedules deeper into the morning gives them
more evening time to frolic which in today's culture often means "consume!"
As much as I want to ignore the clock and tell everyone else to ignore
the clock (and shoot it if they have the ammo for it), I get snookered
by it too. Everyone *else's* schedules shift abruptly, the traffic
patterns follow the clock (though there is some smear) not the sun,
etc. My solar house is a clock (sundial) of sorts. For example, the
active roof-air-to-floor exchange should have cut off about 1 hour ago
and here it is still chugging away! When it quits I will get up, go do
some more chores and try to come back to this infernal machine and get
some work done, ignoring the Siren call of FRIAM (and other online
distractions).
- S
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam [mailto:
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> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:34 AM
> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] [EXTERNAL] Please sign this thing! Eliminate the
> bi-annual time change caused by Daylight Savings Time
>
> But is the time change even needed? What purpose does it really serve?
> There are lots of stories about it rooted in wartime/economy etc. But these
> things do not seem to be valid anymore. And are they worth the collective
> cost?
>
> I have to say I prefer light later in the day though.
>
> --joshua
>
> On Mar 14, 2013, at 11:59 PM, Arlo Barnes <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>> I have heard a proposal for doing smaller adjustments more often - but why
> not take that to the logical extreme and do it continuously? Most people use
> some form or other of computer to tell time nowadays anyway, and even
> physical mechanisms would not be extremely difficult (I think) to redesign
> to change smoothly throughout the year.
>> -Arlo James Barnes
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